Kalindaja

The focus of this Shortbook™ is a beautiful, exotic (sounds good already), and not all toounfamiliar sounding triad pair / hexatonic scale (or "pitch collection", as is the fashionable term),which can be said to be derived from several different sources - both theoretically & culturally.

From a Western point of view, it can be derived from the 5th mode of Harmonic Minor (or Major)while omitting the minor or Major 3rd, as the case may be, of its parent scale (in parenthesis,below).

From a Carnatic (South Indian) point of view, this janya raga or "derived scale" comes directlyfrom the 14th Melakarta "Vakulabaranam", which is the Carnatic 7-note tonal equivalent of theWestern 5th Mode of Harmonic Minor, as previously described.

All sequences and exercises are expanded and presented in all 12 keys.

When practiced in all keys, "Kalindaja" the book's 80+ pages of exercises and sequences are a fun, effective and sweet-sounding way to cover each and every Major & minor triad and their inversions, as well as every diminished seventh chord.